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Dr. Samir Desai
Feb 5, 20172 min read
What Mariah Carey's New Year's Eve Performance Can Teach Us in Medicine
Mariah Carey or Whitney Houston? As a college student in the 1990s, I remember staying up late into the night, debating one of the more...
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Dr. Samir Desai
Jan 30, 20172 min read
Rank-Order List Errors: 3 Rules To Prevent Disaster In The Residency Match
If you're a residency applicant, you've nearly come to the end of a grueling process. To recap, you agonized for weeks about your...
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Dr. Samir Desai
Jan 23, 20172 min read
Why Scholarly Concentrations May Provide an Advantage in the Residency Match
Scholarly concentrations offered by U.S. medical schools have rapidly proliferated over the past ten years, ever since a small group of...
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Dr. Samir Desai
Jan 18, 20172 min read
Answering Healthcare Questions During Medical School Interviews: Some New Considerations
With a few days left before President-Elect Donald Trump assumes the presidency of the U.S., stakeholders in the health care industry are...
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Dr. Samir Desai
Mar 5, 20152 min read
A New Way To Rank U.S. Medical Schools
By Dr. Samir Desai Drive down any of our interstate highways, and it won't be long before you come to an exit for one of our nation's...
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Dr. Samir Desai
Mar 3, 20152 min read
Today's MD2B is Megan Beck for her Efforts to Help Providers Identify Victims of Human Trafficking
By Dr. Samir Desai There is a perception that human trafficking isn't as much of a problem in the U.S. as other parts of the world but...
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Dr. Samir Desai
Mar 3, 20152 min read
How Increasing Competition for Residency and Fellowship Positions May Affect You
By Dr. Samir Desai Over a decade ago, the Association of American Medical Colleges urged U.S. medical schools to expand enrollment to...
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Dr. Samir Desai
Feb 21, 20151 min read
Why Mentoring Matters For Medical Students
By Dr. Samir Desai What's the best way to find a mentor in medical school? How do you establish a mentor-mentee relationship with a...
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